Better healing is enhanced by faith and creativity.
Not just any faith. Targeted faith.
Before I clarify the target, let me reminisce about my last nightmare.
2019 was really scary as I hurtled through a strange disease.
My body lit up like a July 4th sparkler.
Nerves from head to toe misfired like a dying Terminator.
Google said, “You’re cooked.”
That’s neuropathy.
Fried nerves. No cure (they tell you). No solution.
Just drugs when you consult most doctors.
But faith led me down a better path for long-term healing.
Sometimes, pain pushes us off the cliff.
Psychiatrist Frederic Flach calls this cliff the “strange, gray land.”
No immediate answers.
So, the quick reaction is . . .
- drugs
- alcohol
Anything that will dull the pain and reduce fear or panic.
Healing in a strange gray land
When I hit the cliff, patience almost jumped with me.
But, I held on to greater strength. And greater strength led to answers.
I believed God would hold me together for solutions down the road.
“How gracious he will be when you cry for help. As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” Isaiah 30:19, 21
Our body is God’s gift to us.
The solution for pain and disease is within our bodies.
They heal themselves if we let them.
But, woe to our healing when we cram the All-American diet.
- Added sugar
- Fried anything
- Overloaded carbs
- Repeat these again
The most significant breakthrough for my healing was the realization that my All-American diet of added sugar and overloaded carbs combined with low Vitamin D blew my nerves out.
Eliminating every food with added sugar and substituting carb snacks with real fruit like grapes, blueberries, and cantaloupe dropped nerve pain from 10 to 2 in one year and ultimately zero after three years.
“Small destructions add up and finally they are understood collectively as large destructions.” Wendell Berry
So do healthy habits. They add up . . . to healing.
Simmering through pain
Simmering reminds us that “not yet” is expected.
The body takes time to repair even on a healthy diet.
Why not allow it to simmer?
By “simmer,” I mean patiently believing the answers are out there.
We just need to find them.
There are so many wrong choices!
How do we avoid the wrong ones?
Ask, “Is this masking or solving my problem?”
Some doctors treat diseases by masking the pain.
But masking the pain is not facing the pain that takes you somewhere. Face the pain that takes you to the actual source. Don’t assume or let someone tell you the source unless you think it through.
After a nerve test in 2019, I lost 25% of the feeling in my feet.
I asked my doctor if I could get it back.
He explained there’s a chance if I accept the actual cause.
“Maybe 1% do that,” he said.
1% are willing to change their lifestyle.
Low carbs, no added sugar, and a non-processed diet led to my healing.
Faith and creativity heal the worst diseases
I believe everyone is capable of healing.
But, our odds dramatically improve if we believe in the power of…
- faith
- creativity
So, I face every health crisis with the God of all possibilities.
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you and watch over you. Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.” Ps. 32:8-9
God offers guidance and direction for healing if you come to him.
He inspires creativity. He inspires hope if you listen.
How do we recover from the worst diseases?
- Gather all information
- Expect all possibilities
Louis Pasteur discovered immunization this way.
His thorough research on fowl cholera failed.
So, he took an extended vacation.
When he returned, the germ cultures were sterile.
He almost quit the experiment.
But, sensing an answer, he reinoculated the fowl with a new culture.
Incredibly, the birds didn’t get sick, and immunology was born.
Creativity works. Faith works.
But, ya gotta let both simmer and listen for the answers.
How do faith and creativity help you?